Why Do the Yoga Sutras Begin With Samadhi?

One of the most unique and overlooked aspects of Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is that it begins with the fourth stage of yoga in the first chapter. The Yoga Sutras opens with Samadhi Pada, the chapter on samadhi, realization, and the experience of oneness, while the...

Your Nervous System Was Designed to Recover

How Unresolved Tension Becomes Stress By Gurudev Shri Amritji The connection between emotions and illness is well documented and established. Many tension based illnesses can be traced to traumatic, emotionally charged events that disrupt the balancing power and self...

The State Your Body Enters Every Night, and Why It Could Change Your Life

By Gurudev Shri Amritji There is a state you enter every night in which the conflict you carry during the day is no longer active, where the body restores itself without effort and the mind is no longer organizing experience through reaction, comparison, or memory. In...
The Body-Mind is an Extension of Your Soul

The Body-Mind is an Extension of Your Soul

Why do the same painful patterns keep returning, even when the people and situations look different? Gurudev reminds us that what repeats in our lives is often not the outer event, but the inner reaction we carry. When old memory, fear, or hurt stays unconscious, it...

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The Path of Awakening Requires Remembering

Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji Guru Purnima is a sacred day in the yogic tradition, observed on the full moon of the lunar month of Ashadha (June–July). It has been celebrated for thousands of years as a time to honor the guru—the spiritual teacher and inner guide...

Not Just Air: The Power of Breath

Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji Breath as Bridge Between Conscious and SubconsciousYour breath is not merely a physical function. It is the living bridge between your mind, the conscious, thinking self, and your subconscious inner body, which operates automatically...

Accessing the Source of Oneness

Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji When you are identified with your self-image, it acts as a screen of self-concepts and pre-learned perceptions. It arises from the reactively distorted impressions stored in your memories of the past. When you perceive through this...

Forgiveness and the Truth That Sets You Free

Excerpt from Gurudev Shri Amritji | Dictation: May 28, 2025 In the practice of I AM Yoga®, I say: when someone offends you and you are able to forgive them, it means you have come to a place of inner purity. You are no longer participating in the conflict or...